Unruly spirits : the science of psychic phenomena in modern France /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brower, M. Brady
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Parapsychology > France > History.
Parapsychologie > France > Histoire.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Mysticism.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Occultism.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Parapsychology > General.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Reference.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Supernatural.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Parapsychology.
France.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : psychical research and French science
  • From religious enthusiasm to reluctant science : psychical research, 1848-1882
  • The development of psychical research in France, 1882-1900
  • The measure of uncertainty : the Institut général psychologique, 1900-1908
  • The master and his double : Charles Richet and the literary unconscious
  • In the wake of war : the Institut métapsychique international
  • The limits of method : the question of good faith and the decline of psychical research
  • Conclusion : indeterminacy and the discourse of tables.

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